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BIGGLES SWEEPS THE DESERT
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330726
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1951. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles. Colour frontis and 8 b/w illustrations, 2 double page spreads. 208 pages. 4th impression. Spine slightly bumped. A few tiny foxspots, mainly to textblock. Last couple of pages are slightly damp wrinkled. Dustwrapper is just a little edge worn and very slightly grubby to rear panel.

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BIGGLES AND THE PLANE THAT DISAPPEARED
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330725
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1963. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black title to spine. 6 b/w illustrations. 159 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Some light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and lightly damp stained (only visible on verso). Rear panel is grubby.

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BIGGLES FLIES TO WORK
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330724
Published by Deans International Publishing. 1985. Fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. 184 pages. 7.5 x 5". ISBN: 0603034098.

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BIGGLES FLIES TO WORK
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330723
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. Circa 1978. Slightly better than very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Some unusual cases of Biggles and his Air Police. ISBN: 0603034098. A lovely bright copy with sharp corners and spine.

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GIMLET MOPS UP
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330722
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1947. Good condition.

Cream cloth, brown titles and vignette to front cover. Colour frontis plus green and black full-page illustrations. 185 pages. 7.25 x 4.75". Spine and corners bumped. Covers grubby, spine browned. Endpapers lightly browned. Some page corner tips creased and some light foxing to textblock.

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GIMLET TAKES A JOB
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Walter Foster; Peter Archer.
Stock no. 1330721
Published by Armada. 1st 1963. Very good condition.

Yellow pictorial cardwraps. 142 pages. B/w illustrations to text by Foster, cover illustration by Archer. Light vertical creases to spine where book has been held open. Light page browning else contents clean.

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BIGGLES AND THE MISSING MILLIONAIRE
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330720
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biggles & Co. are on a trail of a yacht that sailed away and never came back. Blue boards, black titles. Not illustrated. Spine bumped. Slight loss to lower edges of free-endpapers. Light foxing to endpapers and textblock. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed, grubby to rear panel and has a small brown mark to top edge of front panel.

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BIGGLES TAKES IT ROUGH
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330719
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1963. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black title to spine. Front endpapers are maps of the island of Tola. No other illustrations despite accreditation to Leslie Stead. 184 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed, slightly grubby to rear panel.

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WORRALS IN THE WILDS
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330718
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1947. Very good condition.

The first post-war Worrals story. Blue covers. Black titles. Colour frontis plus 6 two-tone illustrations. 192 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Covers very slightly grubby (spine very slightly browned). Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Pale page browning throughout else contents clean.

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BIGGLES AND THE LOST SOVEREIGNS
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Leslie Stead.
Stock no. 1330717
Published by The Children's Book Club. Good condition.

Green boards, black title to spine. Colour frontis. 184 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers lightlyk marked and spine sunned. Front free-endpaper has been removed. Half-title/frontis is part detached at lower 2". Some foxing else contents clean.

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THE RESCUE FLIGHT
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Alfred Sindall.
Stock no. 1330716
Published by Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1953. Almost very good condition.

Green boards, black title to spine. 6 b/w illustrations. 248 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly grubby. Top edge of textblock is slightly grubby, fore-edge has a few small spots. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Endpapers are browned. Contents clean.

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THE FIRST BIGGLES OMNIBUS
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330715
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Contains 4 four-length stories: Biggles Sweeps The Desert, Biggles In The Orient, Biggles Delivers The Goods and Biggles Fails To Return. Blue boards, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. 640 pages. 5th impression. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Pale page browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is a little edge rubbed with light damp staining to spine.

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